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Battery Could Lead To Big Leaps in Performance
Researchers at Dundee and Warwick universities in the UK, have identified the key role oxygen plays in storing and releasing a battery’s energy and this could lead to the development of batteries for electronics and vehicles that charge faster, last longer, and are safer to use
Previously it was thought that oxygen in the battery was “passive”. But the study found that while phosphates showed little oxygen participation, the layered oxides (in the cathodes) showed “significant” electron extraction…
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“Air” Battery Makes Larger Electric Aircraft Possible
The global aviation industry has been struggling to wean itself away from kerosene jet fuel, but there have been some signs that change is on the way. However, this may apply only to much smaller aircraft.
Full sized airplanes represent a significant challenge, which requires a completely new generation of lighter, higher performing (increased energy density) batteries. And, the US startup Air Energy may have a solution: solid State Lithium-Air batteries.
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Few Electrified Ships Can Reshape Shipping Fuels
Maritime transportation accounts for nearly 3% of global energy consumption, around 3% of greenhouse gas emissions and both energy consumption and emissions are expected to further increase over the coming decades. This paints quite a bleak picture, so when a paper is produced that argues that it’s not all doom and gloom, it gets interesting.
The paper argues that not every ship needs to become battery-electric. This goes against the standard anti-eco argument, that states that marine transport is not suitable for electrification. Inland vessels, ferries, coastal ships, offshore support vessels, service craft, port craft and many short-sea routes operate in regular patterns that are much friendlier to electrification.
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Comparing Fossil Fuels Tonnage vs. Fuel Use
When one discusses maritime fuel use and its replacement, the discussion often is about bunker fuel and whether ammonia, methanol, hydrogen, LNG, biofuels, synthetic fuels or batteries can replace it.
Leaving aside the issue of Inland sea vessels, ferries, coastal ships, offshore support vessels, service craft, port craft and whether they can or should be electrified, one of the issues that is not being discussed (until now that is), is what happens to the marine market in terms of cargo capacity and cargo hauled, when fossil fuels are replaced.
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Paving the Way for Lithium–Nitrogen Batteries
Scientists from Belgium’s University of Namur and China’s Wuhan University of Technology have proposed a plan to advance lithium–nitrogen (Li–N₂) batteries. The researchers argue that the development of Li–N₂ batteries is hindered by poor reversibility, limited cycling stability, and sluggish nitrogen activation.
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PSR Provides $2,000 STEM Scholarship
Power Systems Research has provided its annual $2,000 STEM Scholarship (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) to 2026 Eagan High School graduate Ryan Houth.
The STEM scholarship is made through the non-profit Eagan Community Foundation, which has donated more than $3 million in scholarships, grants and initiatives to the Eagan community since it was founded in 1990.
Power Systems Research, a global data research and intelligence company, has been providing a STEM scholarship annually to the Eagan Community Foundation since 2013.
“Power Systems Research has been promoting engineering-based research since its founding in 1976,” noted Joe Zirnhelt, PSR president, in discussing the scholarship program. “We believe it’s extremely important to encourage and support STEM education at the high school level.”
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Strict EV Mandates Could Implode Economy

Chris Fisher Testifying before a Senate subcommittee on transportation technology recently, American Trucking Associations (ATA) President and CEO Chris Spear lobbed criticism at the California Air Resources Board (CARB), blasting its regulatory framework as economically unworkable and completely detached from operational reality.
“California Air Resources Board does not sit down with our industry,” Spear told lawmakers. “They don’t care what our industry has to say. Their attitude is: ‘You’ll figure it out.'”
The trucking industry narrowly avoided being the epicenter of what Spear characterized as an economic collapse when the Trump administration last year spiked the California Truck Emission Standards (CARB’s Omnibus rule) and California Truck NOx Emission Standards (CARB’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulations), respectively. California withdrew its waiver request in January 2025 to implement its Advanced Clean Fleets rule, which would have effectively mandated electric trucks in the state.
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North America 2026 ATV Production
232,100 units is the estimate by Power Systems Research of the number of 4-Wheel ATVs expected to be produced in the US and Mexico during 2026.
A 4-Wheeled ATV is another term for All Terrain Vehicle. It has 4 wheels and is designed to be driven off road. It seats one person, or sometimes two, one in front of the other.
This product information comes from industry interviews and from two proprietary databases maintained by Power Systems Research: EnginLink™ , which provides information on engines, and OE Link™, a database of equipment manufacturers.
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Toyota Pulls Plug on Important EV

Guy Youngs Toyota is scraping its plans to launch a next-generation luxury EV, the Lexus LF-ZC electric sedan, which was expected to enter production later this year with advanced new batteries that would delivery significant range improvements, and a dedicated platform.
The model was planned to use the gigacasting production technique that would split the vehicle body into three parts, front, center, and rear, to cut costs.
On paper, this car would have been brilliant, but like many Toyota promises…
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PV Equipped Vehicles May Cover 80% of Electricity
In Germany, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Fraunhofer ISE) has demonstrated that the integration of photovoltaics (PV) into vehicle roofs, hoods and side panels significantly reduces pressure on power grids, reduces charging costs, decreases the need for external charging and provides significant proportions of their energy use.
The researchers found that cars in Central Europe could generate up to 55% of their annual electricity demand and in Southern Europe, the share could rise to 80% (this assumes relatively low annual mileage and large roof surfaces, such as those found on SUVs)
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